3.1.4 Discuss the use of models in predicting the growth of human populations
3.7.1 Explain the difficulties in applying the concept of carrying capacity to local human populations
3.8.1 Explain the concept of an ecological footprint as a model for assessing the demands that human populations make on their environment
3.8.2 Calculate from appropriate data the ecological footprints of a given populations, stating the approximations and assumptions involved
3.8.3 Describe and explain the differences between the ecological footprints of two human populations, one form LEDC and one from MEDC
3.8.4 Discuss how national and international development policies and cultural influences can affect human population dynamics and growth
3.8.5 Describe and explain the relationships between population, resource consumption and technological development, and their influence on carrying capacity and material economic growth
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Notes
IB Assessment Statements
Rutherford Chapter 8 & 163.1.1 Describe the nature and explain the implications of exponential growth in human populations
3.1.2 Calculate and explain, from given data, the values of crude birth rate, crude death rate, fertility, doubling time and natural increase rate
3.1.3 Analyze age/sex diagrams showing demographic transition models
3.1.4 Discuss the use of models in predicting the growth of human populations
3.7.1 Explain the difficulties in applying the concept of carrying capacity to local human populations
3.8.1 Explain the concept of an ecological footprint as a model for assessing the demands that human populations make on their environment
3.8.2 Calculate from appropriate data the ecological footprints of a given populations, stating the approximations and assumptions involved
3.8.3 Describe and explain the differences between the ecological footprints of two human populations, one form LEDC and one from MEDC
3.8.4 Discuss how national and international development policies and cultural influences can affect human population dynamics and growth
3.8.5 Describe and explain the relationships between population, resource consumption and technological development, and their influence on carrying capacity and material economic growth
Resources
Population Clock
Population Growth in Little Bitty Lights
Minature Earth
World in the Balance Website
Breathing Earth
population Reference Bureau
AIDS Clock
Population Growth Animation
Baraka: Chickens and People
Did You Know?
Yep, We Hit 7 Billion!
State of the World: Human Populations
Now What Do We Face?
7 Billion
Population Game from France
What's Your Number?
Most Average Person
World O Meteres: Real Time Statistics
New Problems Large Populations Cause
Population Growth Box by Box
Population Policy
Governments Paying People to Have KidsPopulation Control: Wealthy Putting Down the Poor?
Population Theories
MalthusBitesized Malthus & Boserup
"Overpopulation is a Myth"
Obituaries
ObituariesGenealogy Guide
St. Louis Obituaries By Year
New Woodstock Obituraries
Cemetary Data
Demographic Transition
Demographic TransitionDemography Game
Population Pyramids
US Census InformationCoolio Population Pyramids
Population Pyramid that Moves
Making Population Pyramids on Excel
Solutions/Family Planning
International Family PlanningCell Phones as Family Planning
Microfinance
Kiva Microfinance
Brazil's Fertility Rate Dropping due to Soaps
Obituaries
How Mr. Condom Made Thailand a Better Place
UN Development Program
Ecologic Footprint
How Many Earths?Nature Conservancy Carbon Footprint
One Minute Calculator
Carbon Footprint Ltd
EPA Emissions Calculator
Are you an environmentally friendly CEO?
Assignments
Demographic Transition Online lab